alright already, you're 3 times as much posts shilling about him.
MSM might have RussianBots, we get RussianDoll shills of shills
(2007)
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What do you like most about American culture?
I really like the mail system. It's definitely the best in the world. And the plumbing. We've got everyone beat there. Our toilets rule. Compare them with Japan's or Eastern Europe's… the Arabs and Persians are definitely cleaner because they actually wash down there every time. But their plumbing is nowhere near as good as ours. America wins! (on toilets and postal system).
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George W. Bush is calling for an additional 800,000 soldiers to fight in Iraq. Thoughts?
He should send 800,000 plumbers, the prick. Not even HE capitalizes on or exports what's best about our society. Only the pathetic embarrassing things. "Freedom", murder, McMusic, McFood, McAgriculture, McReligion, McEducation - it's really not a very complimentary picture of "us". We'd definitely win at least a few people over if we gave them the U.S. Postal Service and good plumbing. If the campaign to win "hearts and minds" went astray it's because we couldn't make people stupid, fat and unhealthy fast enough. Bush's is just too cynical a view of humanity to implement effectively. You need a hundred years to take people from being full of blood, vigor and honor to being morally depleted sacks of consumerist shit. That happened here in 60 or so years, but I don't think it can happen faster than that somewhere else. Probably another approach is called for, anyway… um, when scary bastards like Zbigniew Brzezinski are trumpeting to that end, you know we're in big trouble. Even so, most Americans have realized at this point that stuffing our own country ever fuller with fatter, stupider, more morally degenerate fuckheads does not paint a particularly rosy picture for the future. One would hope that when even Kissinger and Brzezinski realize that it doesn't serve the national interest to try and convert the whole world to the statistical pseudo-religion of the 'market', with vassals all prostrate before a model of slobbish, slavish materialism. Even here in Work Camp A we see plenty of clear signs that the National Security isn't served too well by a counter-ideologal mantra like "eat, fuck, work, buy, drink, fuck, work, buy".
There was a brilliant Bedouin distillation at the front of the invading column during the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Remember? The guy was so happy our boys were there that when asked by an embedded hack what he liked so much about America, he replied "Democracy, Whiskey, Sexy". This is what the seedier elements from Iraq's own society once had in mind with a hoped-for "freedom" (a benevolent promise offered by invading troops, later understood to be an effect enjoyed only by relocation to Work Camp A), and it's an idea that has probably actually persisted somewhat. Because the strategists at the Brookings Institute and other think tanks seem happy to advertise these three things - Democracy, Whiskey, Sexy - as being the best of what we have to offer the world. Its certainly what the Iranians are being offered on LA-based Persian satellite networks — this whole "look at how free and fun it is in the land of freedom, tits and drunkenness! Look what you're missing!!" My question is: are they wrong?? Since we are deliberately making an appeal to the basest, most scumbag-like elements of world society, does this not mean that the end result for our own country lies in that direction? If so, I believe "Democracy, Whiskey, Sexy" is what should be flying up there on our flag now. I say this out of deepest respect for the America of ingenuity, strong work, and good wholesome character. If these are just legendary archaisms, we should let Old Glory retire with some dignity, as a positive beacon of what once was and now isn't, and should not drag it through the mud of today. If "Democracy, Whiskey, Sexy" is more current with the times, let's change it to that. As a slogan on a flag it would have the merit of being honest. Unfortunately, I don't think our servicemen would be all that excited about fighting and dying for "Democracy, Whiskey, Sexy". Much to their credit.
http:// www.markprindle.com/spruance-i.htm
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